. The Spirit of '76 : devoted to the principles, incidents, and men of '76 and colonial times . et over one hundred errors and omissions were found. In addition to the genealogical matter contained in thiswork one page of each number will be devoted to an ex-planation of heraldic terms, their origin and sentimentexpressed by them. THIS work will contain all the essentail features(with manyadditions) of Savages Genealogical Dic-tionary and other works long out ; witha brief history of the early settlers and refer-ences to the various books and other sources of informationwhere complete
. The Spirit of '76 : devoted to the principles, incidents, and men of '76 and colonial times . et over one hundred errors and omissions were found. In addition to the genealogical matter contained in thiswork one page of each number will be devoted to an ex-planation of heraldic terms, their origin and sentimentexpressed by them. THIS work will contain all the essentail features(with manyadditions) of Savages Genealogical Dic-tionary and other works long out ; witha brief history of the early settlers and refer-ences to the various books and other sources of informationwhere complete data may be found ; thus enabling any per-son by following the instructions given to obtain a history oftheir own families at a comparatively small cost. Sample pages are furnished with this number of TheSpirit ok 76, and the work will be commenced with theOctober number. It will be arranged alphabetically andeach issue will contain the history of several families. Partieswho desire information of their families in advance of publi-cation, before the names are reached in alphabetical order,. ARMSTRONG.—Tradition states that the originalsurname of this family was Fairbairn, and that itwas changed to Armstrong on the following occa-sion: An ancient King of Scotland having his horse killedunder him in battle, was immediately remounted by Fair-£?-£-£-,,. bairn (a man of powerful ^h£$ k^TrT^> CM^» physque,) on his horse. -^fyjS-- For this timely assistance(LfJjlrT^ tne king amply rewardedhim with lands en theBorders, and Jto perpet-uate the memory of soimportant a service, aswell as the manner inwhich it was performed(for Fairbairn took theking by the thigh and sethim on the saddle,) hisroyal master gave himthe appellation of Arm-strong—strong-of-arm—and assigned him for a crest an armed hand and arm, in the hand a leg and foot in ar-mour, couped at the thigh—all ppr The most completecoat armour of the family of the present time is Arms—Sable three dexter arms conj
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